Senior Test Engineer at Eaton in Woodridge, IL

Eaton’s Data Center division is currently seeking a Senior Test Engineer.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $71,000 - $105,000 a year.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What you’ll do:

• Lead system-level testing, integration, and validation of power management, power distribution, energy storage, UPS, and related hardware products to ensure compliance with functional, performance, and reliability requirements.
• Develop and execute test strategies, plans, procedures, and reports covering hardware, firmware, software, networking, and end-to-end system operation.
• Validate network-connected products and solutions, including Ethernet, TCP/IP, SNMP, Modbus, BACnet, cloud connectivity, and cybersecurity-related functionality.
• Design and execute test scenarios that evaluate system behavior under normal, abnormal, environmental, and fault conditions to verify product robustness and reliability.
• Collaborate with Hardware, Firmware, Software, Product Management, Quality, Manufacturing, and Customer Support teams to define test methodologies, assess product risks, and support successful product releases.
• Identify and drive improvements in test processes, laboratory infrastructure, tools, automation frameworks, and validation methodologies from concept through implementation.
• Review product requirements, specifications, and system architectures to ensure comprehensive test coverage, traceability, and validation of customer and business requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship while communicating test strategies, results, product quality risks, and recommendations to project teams and engineering leadership.

Basic (Required) Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Computer science from an accredited institution
• Minimum of five (5) years in testing

Position Success Criteria:

• Collaboration, documentation, consensus building
• Power system user test case

We will not consider candidates who:

• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of Woodridge, IL will be considered. Active Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc

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